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What I propose to do is allow self voting for this challenge but from the next challenge on no one can vote for themselves.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
However, the voting rules state that...
"you can edit your vote up to the time the thread is locked"
...which means that any votes currently cast may change anyway. By the time voting ends, we may all have switched our votes to ourselves. Or none of us may have voted for ourselves. Or, in some nightmare scenario, we might be tactically switching our votes at the last minute to change the outcome. ^#(^
The only fair options are we all vote for ourselves or none of us vote for ourselves.
The advantage of the second over the first is that we are then obliged to actually listen to all the other entrants, giving them an honest appraisal. As has been stated, there's a fair amount of listening time to fit in - I get dozens of tracks on my SoundCloud stream every day and I never get to listen to most of them. I just don't have the time or inclination.
Participating in this challenge has given me the focus to give some considered attention to around 18 tracks that I might never have listened to if they just flashed by on my SoundCloud stream. And the standard has been really high. After my first listen I had only managed to eliminate four or five tracks (and even they were by no means bad). It took further listens to narrow things down to my top three. I think I know my winner now but I'll have a further listen to be sure.
My point is that by choosing to not vote for myself, I have given a fair bit more attention to the other tracks than I might otherwise have done. And, hopefully, my own track has had more attention than it might otherwise have done.
Isn't that all we can really ask for, that someone listens to the music we create?
The competition is meant to be fun at the end of the day and we are supposedly all adults so I would hope we all behave in a respectable way in regards to voting.
Until the forum gets a poll system this is the best way to vote and I do think people should have the chance to change their vote if they like, obviously like any real vote if there looks to be something dodgy going on towards the end of the voting period I will of course investigate this.
Like I said this is a fun competition and I do hope other forum members vote in great numbers so that the voting choices of the entrants don't influence the competition as much.
But yes next challenge NO SELF VOTING!
Good to see a few more votes being placed last night (including one for me :-) )
So come on everyone else, get listening and voting!
This is bloody hard :-B
Just did a quick tot up of the score....16 votes placed so far, and it's currently a 3 way tie between @Adam_MD @mellowsun and @steamabacus
I think it's 5 non participants that have voted.
btw who is tim morris? That's not a forum name I recognise.
Not long after the tracks were put up, I sat down with a cup of tea and a pen and paper to listen through to all the tracks and pick a winner - if only it was that simple!
On my first listen through I thought I'd put a tick next to any track that was a contender - by the end there were only 5 tracks I hadn't ticked - and even they were pretty good (I was getting pretty ruthless). So it took a couple more listens through to come to the conclusion there were 3 tracks that stood out. I'd been considering all sorts of things like 'how 'drone-y', 'how much effort put in', 'how technically proficient', etc. but in the end, my favourite three just 'spoke to me' a little more than the others.
It was maybe even harder to decide which of these three very different tracks was 'the one'.
So, on the final podium but not quite taking the champagne (and I'm calling it equal second) were...
@thecolourbox - Broken String Blues What a great track! I'd call Syd Barrett one of my seminal guitar playing influences and this had a real early Floyd psyche vibe to it. Wonderful stuff. It brought a huge smile to my face. I know you said you felt a bit out of your depth doing this challenge but you really shouldn't have - music isn't all about clever technique and vituoso playing. You've really got something here.
@PolarityMan - Dronie Just my sort of thing. Lots of work gone into this, drum programming (love the tabla!), different sections and changes, some great guitar riffs. It made me feel I should have put just a bit more effort into my own track (like bothering to tune up before I laid down the lead line! "> ). Proper tune, good work.
In the end, (Christophe Lambert accent) "there can be only one".....
@Basher - 56k Warning Well, you've beaten Norway! It may have been "post-modern, atonal, sonic-drone collage" like you said, but it certainly wasn't "barely listenable" to me. I love abstract soundscapes and this was engrossing and engaging. And, having played with some synth-mangling noiseniks myself, I know how much work goes into making something like this. And I felt you really put the 'drone' concept at the heart of your piece. I really liked the graphic design work on your image, too. Top marks.
=D>
After listening to the fretboard challenge entries again of course!
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